FBM were appointed by Notting Hill Genesis Housing Association to develop resdiential proposals for a gap site at the corner of Maygrove Road and Shoot Up Hill in Kilburn, north london. The proposed four storied block creates six new homes. The apartments are a mix of one, two and three bedrooms with amenity space. Consistent with the scale of the surrounding area, new building has been conceived as a villa block which acts as a bookend to the terraced housing on Maygrove Road. 

The street facing facade has been articulated with an extended entrance porch, which contains the porticoed main entrance and ancillary spaces. On the upper floors the private amenity loggia balconies have been articulated as a bay structure which has a dialogue with the adjoining terraced housing and other properties in the surrounding area.The top floor has a notched profile in plan which reduces the massing, creates an articulated roof profile and provides and sunny south facing terrace. .

The bay element provides a central focus to the street facing facade. Windows and openings are subdivided by reconstituted stone mullions which add a vertical rhythm and reference the scale of the adjoining terraced houses. The bookend nature of the block is celebrated by the chamfered corner and a raised parapet line, capped with a precast entablature.

The gable and garden facing elevations are more direct in their expression, with a series of blind window panels on the gable providing a relief to the shear wall of masonry. The garden facing facade has smaller punched openings and is defined more by its composition of set backs and chamfers than by a formal articulation.

The scheme was granted planning permission in 2021